[ANN] New firmware for Intel 7260 / 3160

[ANN] New firmware for Intel 7260 / 3160

[Emmanuel Grumbach]

Hi,

We have released a new firmware for 3160 and for 7260 Intel devices.
This firmware is not the firmware that has been long announced. It is
based on the existing code base and has a few bug fixes. This firmware
is supported starting 3.10. A new firmware based on a newer code base
will follow - that new firmware will be supported starting 3.13.

I strongly recommend to move to the new firmware - it solves a few
issues that were raised by users.

The firmware for 7260 is available at [1] and for 3160 at [2].
I will send a pull request to linux-firmware.git soon.
The new firmware's version number is 22.1.7.0:

$ dmesg | grep loaded firmware
loaded firmware version 22.1.7.0 op_mode iwlmvm

[1] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-7260-ucode-22.1.7.0.tgz
[2] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.1.7.0.tgz

Emmanuel Grumbach
egrumbach@gmail.com

[ANN] New firmware for Intel 7260 / 3160

[Emmanuel Grumbach]

Hi,

We have released a new firmware for 3160 and for 7260 Intel devices.
This firmware includes the neww APIs we have been implementing for a while now.
We have here bug fixes along with better power save and P2P support.
Anyone who wants to use this firmware must have 3.13 at least.
The new file name is iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-8.ucode.
Just copy the file into /lib/firmware - if the driver / kernel
supports the new firmware, it will load the new one. If not,
iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-7.ucode will be loaded and everything should work
just fine.

The firmware for 7260 is available at [1] and for 3160 at [2].
I encourage people running 3.13 and up to take the new firmware and
report issues.
The new firmware's version is 22.15.8.0:

$ dmesg | grep loaded\ firmware
[ 8871.825758] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 22.15.8.0
op_mode iwlmvm

[1] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-7260-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz
[2] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz

Emmanuel Grumbach
egrumbach@gmail.com

Re: [ANN] New firmware for Intel 7260 / 3160

[Sedat Dilek]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have released a new firmware for 3160 and for 7260 Intel devices.
> This firmware includes the neww APIs we have been implementing for a while now.
> We have here bug fixes along with better power save and P2P support.
> Anyone who wants to use this firmware must have 3.13 at least.
> The new file name is iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-8.ucode.
> Just copy the file into /lib/firmware - if the driver / kernel
> supports the new firmware, it will load the new one. If not,
> iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-7.ucode will be loaded and everything should work
> just fine.
>
> The firmware for 7260 is available at [1] and for 3160 at [2].
> I encourage people running 3.13 and up to take the new firmware and
> report issues.
> The new firmware's version is 22.15.8.0:
>
> $ dmesg | grep loaded\ firmware
> [ 8871.825758] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 22.15.8.0
> op_mode iwlmvm
>
> [1] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-7260-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz
> [2] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz
>

Shouldn't such stuff also go to the linux-firmware-folks?

- Sedat -

[1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/

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Re: [ANN] New firmware for Intel 7260 / 3160

[Emmanuel Grumbach]

>> Hi,
>>
>> We have released a new firmware for 3160 and for 7260 Intel devices.
>> This firmware includes the neww APIs we have been implementing for a while now.
>> We have here bug fixes along with better power save and P2P support.
>> Anyone who wants to use this firmware must have 3.13 at least.
>> The new file name is iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-8.ucode.
>> Just copy the file into /lib/firmware - if the driver / kernel
>> supports the new firmware, it will load the new one. If not,
>> iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-7.ucode will be loaded and everything should work
>> just fine.
>>
>> The firmware for 7260 is available at [1] and for 3160 at [2].
>> I encourage people running 3.13 and up to take the new firmware and
>> report issues.
>> The new firmware's version is 22.15.8.0:
>>
>> $ dmesg | grep loaded\ firmware
>> [ 8871.825758] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 22.15.8.0
>> op_mode iwlmvm
>>
>> [1] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-7260-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz
>> [2] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz
>>
>
> Shouldn't such stuff also go to the linux-firmware-folks?
>

It will - don't worry. I already have a pull request pending to
linux-firmware anyway.
I'll add that new firmware to my fork of linux-firmware [1] tonight.

[1] - https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware.git/

Re: [ANN] New firmware for Intel 7260 / 3160

[Sedat Dilek]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We have released a new firmware for 3160 and for 7260 Intel devices.
>>> This firmware includes the neww APIs we have been implementing for a while now.
>>> We have here bug fixes along with better power save and P2P support.
>>> Anyone who wants to use this firmware must have 3.13 at least.
>>> The new file name is iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-8.ucode.
>>> Just copy the file into /lib/firmware - if the driver / kernel
>>> supports the new firmware, it will load the new one. If not,
>>> iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-7.ucode will be loaded and everything should work
>>> just fine.
>>>
>>> The firmware for 7260 is available at [1] and for 3160 at [2].
>>> I encourage people running 3.13 and up to take the new firmware and
>>> report issues.
>>> The new firmware's version is 22.15.8.0:
>>>
>>> $ dmesg | grep loaded\ firmware
>>> [ 8871.825758] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 22.15.8.0
>>> op_mode iwlmvm
>>>
>>> [1] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-7260-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz
>>> [2] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz
>>>
>>
>> Shouldn't such stuff also go to the linux-firmware-folks?
>>
>
> It will - don't worry. I already have a pull request pending to
> linux-firmware anyway.
> I'll add that new firmware to my fork of linux-firmware [1] tonight.
>

Good.
For future announces like this one you can CC them?

- Sedat -

> [1] - https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware.git/

Re: [ANN] New firmware for Intel 7260 / 3160

[Emmanuel Grumbach]

Emmanuel Grumbach
egrumbach@gmail.com


On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We have released a new firmware for 3160 and for 7260 Intel devices.
>>>> This firmware includes the neww APIs we have been implementing for a while now.
>>>> We have here bug fixes along with better power save and P2P support.
>>>> Anyone who wants to use this firmware must have 3.13 at least.
>>>> The new file name is iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-8.ucode.
>>>> Just copy the file into /lib/firmware - if the driver / kernel
>>>> supports the new firmware, it will load the new one. If not,
>>>> iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-7.ucode will be loaded and everything should work
>>>> just fine.
>>>>
>>>> The firmware for 7260 is available at [1] and for 3160 at [2].
>>>> I encourage people running 3.13 and up to take the new firmware and
>>>> report issues.
>>>> The new firmware's version is 22.15.8.0:
>>>>
>>>> $ dmesg | grep loaded\ firmware
>>>> [ 8871.825758] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 22.15.8.0
>>>> op_mode iwlmvm
>>>>
>>>> [1] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-7260-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz
>>>> [2] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz
>>>>
>>>
>>> Shouldn't such stuff also go to the linux-firmware-folks?
>>>
>>
>> It will - don't worry. I already have a pull request pending to
>> linux-firmware anyway.
>> I'll add that new firmware to my fork of linux-firmware [1] tonight.
>>
>
> Good.
> For future announces like this one you can CC them?
>

I wasn't aware of such a mailing list. I usually send an announcement
on linux-wireless and then send a pull request to Ben Hutchings. If
you think I should change this process, I'd happy to know how to
improve it.

pull request: firmware for Intel Wireless adapter - 7260 / 3160

[Emmanuel Grumbach]

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Hi Ben,

This is another pull request for another firmware. I am sorry not to
have put this together in the same pull request, but I just didn't know
when that new firmware would come out.
It doesn't replace the older one:
* iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-7.ucode is supported starting from 3.10
* iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-8.ucode is supported starting from 3.13

This is why I don't remove the -7.ucode.
At some point (maybe around 3.15) we will stop supporting -7.ucode.
Thanks!

The following changes since commit 52d77db9f133afe4d2b26aeccfd603745f45fda1:

  Merge branch 'master' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware
(2013-12-30 15:22:40 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:


  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware
master

for you to fetch changes up to 11fdbda75cebef71e878fd0dfa6bfca984be35f4:

  iwlwifi: update firmware for 7260 / 3160 devices (2013-12-30 18:59:33
+0200)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Emmanuel Grumbach (1):
      iwlwifi: update firmware for 7260 / 3160 devices

 WHENCE               |    6 ++++++
 iwlwifi-3160-8.ucode |  Bin 0 -> 662032 bytes
 iwlwifi-7260-8.ucode |  Bin 0 -> 674628 bytes
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 iwlwifi-3160-8.ucode
 create mode 100644 iwlwifi-7260-8.ucode



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Re: pull request: firmware for Intel Wireless adapter - 7260 / 3160

[Ben Hutchings]

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On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 19:26 +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> This is another pull request for another firmware. I am sorry not to
> have put this together in the same pull request, but I just didn't know
> when that new firmware would come out.
> It doesn't replace the older one:
> * iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-7.ucode is supported starting from 3.10
> * iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-8.ucode is supported starting from 3.13
> 
> This is why I don't remove the -7.ucode.
> At some point (maybe around 3.15) we will stop supporting -7.ucode.

Even then, the -7 files should remain in linux-firmware.git as there is
not any minimum kernel version.

> Thanks!
> 
> The following changes since commit 52d77db9f133afe4d2b26aeccfd603745f45fda1:
> 
>   Merge branch 'master' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware
> (2013-12-30 15:22:40 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware
> master
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 11fdbda75cebef71e878fd0dfa6bfca984be35f4:
> 
>   iwlwifi: update firmware for 7260 / 3160 devices (2013-12-30 18:59:33
> +0200)

Pulled, thanks.

Ben.

> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Emmanuel Grumbach (1):
>       iwlwifi: update firmware for 7260 / 3160 devices
> 
>  WHENCE               |    6 ++++++
>  iwlwifi-3160-8.ucode |  Bin 0 -> 662032 bytes
>  iwlwifi-7260-8.ucode |  Bin 0 -> 674628 bytes
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 iwlwifi-3160-8.ucode
>  create mode 100644 iwlwifi-7260-8.ucode
> 
> 

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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